Provides that a mortgage investing institution that maintains a mortgage on any real property in the state of New York shall give ten days written notice prior to requiring payment of an increase in the amount of escrow if the dollar amount of such increase is more than five percent of the total monthly payment; provides that no service charge shall be imposed for the giving of such notice; defines that term "mortgage investing institutions" as any banking organization or other entity engaged in the business of offering mortgage financing to the public or investing in mortgages. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: JUDICIARY

Provides taxpayers with a personal income tax deduction for up to $3,000 paid for tuition of the taxpayer or a dependent of the taxpayer at an institution of higher education located in this state; applicable to taxpayers with a NY taxable income of less than $100,000. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Provides that failure to file New York city income tax return shall constitute a prima facie finding that a housing accommodation subject to the emergency housing rent control act is not a person's primary residence as claimed by the delinquent taxpayer and failure to file a state tax return shall constitute a prima facie finding that a housing accommodation subject to the emergency tenant protection act of 1974 is not a person's primary residence. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Increases the penalty for persistent violent felony offenders to a minimum sentence of twenty-five years and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, regardless of felony classification; decreases the number of prior felonies necessary to classify an offender as a persistent violent felony offender from two or more to one or more. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Authorizes mayor or chief executive officer of any city having a population of one million or more persons to establish a utility facility coordinating committee to develop and implement procedures under which each utility corporation and corporation authorized to install and lease underground conduit facilities providing service in the city shall cooperate with such city in developing plans for the removal, protection or replacement of any facilities of such corporation which are to be disturbed or affected by the laying out, establishment, construction, maintenance, operation, alteration or discontinuance of any street, sewer and drainage system, or water supply system in such city, and cooperate with such city where removal, protection or replacement of such facilities is undertaken; details minimum cooperative procedures to be undertaken in such cases. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Increases the penalties for persons convicted of child pornography; creates a new crime of use of a child in a sexual performance in the first degree and imposes consecutive sentencing upon certain multiple convictions of child pornography statutes. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Permits an aggrieved real property owner to file a small claims action where he or she is not notified of the results of a grievance properly filed within the time period provided by law, and refunds the $25.00 filing fee in such cases. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Requires statements sent by a credit card company to a consumer to contain a clear and conspicuous notice of the due date of the balance and the payment required to avoid incurring new or additional finance charges. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Provides that a person shall be disqualified from an election for which the filing of an annual statement of financial disclosure is required if such person fails to make a timely filing of such financial disclosure statement; provides a method for the filling of vacancies which occur as a result of such disqualifications. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Provides that where the court determines that a party has engaged in purposeful discrimination against prospective jurors in the exercise of peremptory challenges, it shall seat the juror, discharge the jury panel or fashion any other appropriate remedy. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Encourages carpooling through preferential lane use; sets forth specifications for the types or classes of vehicles which may use such preferential lanes; establishes traffic infraction for unsafe use or improper entry into such lanes. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Requires the metropolitan transit authority to include in its annual strategic operation plan an analysis of the impact of a proposed reduction in transit authority personnel or services including, but not limited to, booth closings, on commuter safety. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Provides that multiple criminal mischief offenses committed as part of a common plan or scheme where there is a hate crime element present in such offenses shall be punishable according to the cumulative damage caused by the commission of such multiple offenses. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CODES

Requires school districts in a city with one million or more to investigate and report on the status of PCB's in school buildings; report to be submitted to the commissioner by January 1, next succeeding the close of the school year in which the inspection was conducted with all buildings being inspected by January 1, 2014. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: EDUCATION

Restricts the use of an electronic device while crossing a crosswalk in a city with a population of one million or more; provides for a person in violation to be issued a summons and pay a civil fine of one hundred dollars. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Authorizes the board of elections to cause absentee ballots received by it by common carrier to be cast and counted provided such ballot was sent not later than the day before the election and received by such board of elections not later than seven days following the day of election. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: ELECTIONS

Regulates the issuance of lifetime service contracts on goods, wares and merchandise by mercantile establishments; requires proper insurance or establishment of escrow account in guarantee thereof. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: CONSUMER PROTECTION

Continues eligibility for additional state payments to those recipients of supplemental security income notwithstanding the fact that they may discontinue living alone; defines "living with others" for these purposes; present law reduces such benefits if such a recipient lives with others. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: SOCIAL SERVICES

Imposes extensive and detailed requirements upon motor vehicle repair shops in the conduct of their business with the public with respect to disclosure of labor charges on estimates and invoices, including the cost of tear down time, the use of reconditioned parts, information regarding the requirements for the exercise of any guarantees and the right of the customer to copies of service records and purchase orders for parts. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: TRANSPORTATION

Provides for the appointment of a special prosecutor for medical care fraud to investigate and prosecute fraud, waste and abuse in the health care industry to serve for a term of 10 years; provides authority to receive complaints and investigate; provides for toll free number to receive complaints and immunity from liability for persons making complaints; provides for an annual report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly and attorney general. / Sponsor: KRUGER Committee: FINANCE